The archives have always been public since I've been involved, April 2004.
If you are worried about people finding out too much about you using the
Internet, I would advise you to trust only that which you have control
over. Mailing lists are not under your control, and as such, even if they
were private at some time, you have no control over who might make it
public at some later date.
You also send emails to tens or hundreds of complete strangers, who may use
the information you provide them against you in the future.
I'm surprised that you even care -- you seem to be extremely open about
your identity all over the web:
Hi All.
I'm Ben, Darwin, NT, AU. Just subscribed to the list.
Read the online docs but have some questions about MapServer and what
it can do. Can MapServer handle other formats ie MapInfo or ArcInfo
Export? What minimum hardware requirements are there? ie can I run an
older gen 486 as a MapServer? Are all ShapeFile formats the same? As
my GIS data is in ArcView Shapefile format can it be used as is or does
it need to be converted to ESRI ShapeFile format? If so, is there a
good converter app for this? Should I install Apache first then
MapServer?
Thanks in advance, look forward to learning.
Cheers, Ben
Ben Minton
Darwin, NT, AU
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Ben Minton
Darwin, NT, AU
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Ben Minton
Darwin, NT, AU
www.darlug.org
benminton at austarnet . com . au
Are you trying to hide something? Use a throwaway email address and an
alternate identity. Nobody in this world is worried about publishing what
Ben said and when he said it in a mailing list, because as soon as you sent
it to hundreds of people, it is out of your control. If you are worried
about your identity, stop using the internet as yourself.
I would have expected some level of personal information
security management.
What gave you that idea? I think you expect too much from the Internet.
Beckman
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Ben Minton wrote:
Hi,
I apologise in advance, however originally I sent this email to the
Mailman at Kannel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but it bounced with error
code 550 (relaying).
Original text:
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I was just googling my name 'ben minton' as I do periodically to see how
and where my personal information is posted on the WWW and I have
discovered myself as part of this mailing list, posted in full
chronological order on Open Subscriber (www.opensubscriber.com).
Open Subscriber is a publically available, archive access application to
help those to view information without subscribing to any/some mailing
lists, although my thoughts are slightly more cynical.
The reason why I subscribed to this list using my real name,
geographical location, mobile phone number was, that I was under the
impression that postings to this list and it's archives were private,
viewable only to list-admin and list-subscribers. This view was based on
the fact that this is a moderated list, requires subscription and the
online archives are username/password protected.
Consequently I am prepared to be 'me', speaking openly and honestly to
all those whom subscribe to and interact with this list. However now I
find my posts, which I consider for the viewing of the list-admin and
list-subscribers only, available for full public viewing on the WWW.
If this list is supposed to be private, then can someone in the position
to advise, elucidate why this instance of all my post being available in
their entirety elsewhere has occurred or if this list is in fact open
and unrestricted, why the sign up process does clearly indicate this?
In these times of massive personal information indexing, archiving and
referencing, I attempt to control how and where my personal information
is displayed, hence the periodical searching on the WWW. Although
previously over the last few years, I have not been as vigilant, but due
to a personal circumstance was required to be much more proactive.
In the event that this list is in fact open and unrestricted, and that I
should have reasonably expected any/all of my communications to be end
up in the public domain on the WWW, I will have no other choice than to
unsubscribe.
Obviously I can always re-subscribe using a munged, false or
representative email address using any one of the various online free,
webmail services, however given our topic, Kannel and the types whom
subscribe, I would have expected some level of personal information
security management.
I apologise for this message but this subject is of extreme concern to
myself and needs to be clearly and specifically addressed.
Regards, Ben.
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B.D. Minton
+61 234 144 234
Brisbane, QLD, AU
Internet/WAP Geek
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